§ This Act shall apply to Scotland, subject to the following modifications:—
- (1) The Secretary for Scotland shall be substituted for the Secretary of State:
- (2) The local authority for the purposes of this Act shall be the county council in a county (exclusive of the police burghs therein) and the town council in a royal, parliamentary, or police burgh; and the expenses of a local authority under this Act shall be defrayed, in the case of a county council, out of the general purposes rate, and in the case of a town council, out of the burgh general improvement assessment, or any other assessment leviable by the town council in equal proportions on owners and occupiers: Provided that the ratepayers of a police burgh shall not be assessed by the county council for any such expenses:
- (3) Section seventy-six of the Local Government {Scotland) Act, 1889, shall be substituted for Section eighty-one of the Local Government Act, 1888:
- (4) The power to make an order authorising an inspector appointed under the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, to take steps for enforcing the provisions of this Act and of the orders made thereunder, may be exercised with the consent of the Secretary of State:
- (5) In the Section of this Act relating to the exclusion of small rural parishes, references to a rural parish shall be construed as references to a parish no part of which is comprised within the police boundaries of a royal, parliamentary, or police burgh, or where a parish is partly within and partly without such boundaries, as
1854 references to that part of the parish which is without such boundaries and references to a borough or urban district shall be construed as references to a royal, parliamentary, or police burgh: - (6) Part II. of the Second Schedule to this Act except so far as it relates to the sale of fresh milk and cream, shall not apply:
- (7) The expression "retail trade or business" includes, in addition to any business specified in the definition thereof contained in any other Section of this Act, the business of a photographer, and the expression "bank holiday" means a public or statutory holiday:
- (8) Notwithstanding anything contained in any previous Section of this Act, all offences under this Act shall be prosecuted and all penalties under this Act shall be recovered under the provisions of the Summary Jurisdiction (Scotland) Acts at the instance of the procurator-fiscal; and all penalties imposed and recovered under this Act shall be paid into the Exchequer:
- (9) Section one hundred and forty-five of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, shall not apply.
§ Amendments made: Leave out the word "modifications," and insert instead thereof the word "modification."
§ Leave out Sub-sections (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), and (9).